Nvidia’s Jensen Huang delivering a keynote at GTC 2025. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Naming chips after prominent scientists has been a decades-long tradition at Nvidia. Following its upcoming ...

History of Science coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...